Surrounding and permeating everything is the spiritual force, energy, known as ache. Some of the orishas are human ancestors who became deities when they died. Includes the major considerations for sacrifice, providing the diviner with ways to placate and supplicate the afrocuban deities known as orishas. She heals with her sweet waters and with honey which she also owns. This article is brought to you for free and open access by the institute of. The name orishas refers to the set of deities worshipped in africanbased religions in the americas, like santeria in cuba and candomble in. In cuba, lucumi practitioners would hide their religion beneath the facade of catholicism. Health care and medication are almost free, as is education.
Darrenlopez added it nov 14, she is a prolific writer and painter. She is the youngest of the female orishas but retains the title of iyalode or great queen. This list includes the major orishas honored in the united states, according to scholars and practitioners. The orishas the orishas symbolically represent aspects of the personality of the divine, olodumare. It was originally released on october 3, 2000 on the universal latino label. Manual del oriate con odduns nicolas valentin angarica 1 archivo s. Because of the importance of culture and geography in defining the worship, there will never be a comprehensive list of orishas one should not conclude that other orishas are not. An introduction to the orishas social dance community. Orishas delved into a realm of music and that they created a black identity to which some among the younger generations could relate. The orishas were associated with catholic saints with similar attributes. There is no central authority in control of the movement, which comprises adherents known as. Cuba to provide free labor to growing agricultural markets that benefited european colonizers of the americas. They are finite expressions of fundamental characteristics of existence. This work is brought to you for free and open access by the.
The yoruba would hold on to their religion, but in order to keep it alive, they would have to make it into a new religion. It arose through a process of syncretism between the traditional yoruba religion of west africa and the roman catholic form of christianity. It is its catholic content which gives santeria its peculiar flavor. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. An indepth study of the religious system, tracing the orishas to. Analysis of the difficulties of the video game making on cuba, a country where historically all video gaming activity has been highly criticized. Media in category orishas the following 39 files are in this category, out of 39 total. Caribbean, with cuba and its variant of santeria or a yorubabased system being one of the. Many yoruba and other west africans still turn to the orishas.
The group was first called amenaza, threat or menace in spanish, and appealed to the cuban youth who were hungry for africanamerican culture consisting of hip hop and rap. Lider,directora general alex almoza directiva fernanda d ponte directiva barbaro hernandez directiva. Afrocuban diasporan religions scholarly repository university. They are messengers who reshape spirit into matter, and the embodiment of spiritual principles. Each of the orishas is associated with a particular force of nature and each has its own personality, its own rhythm and its own interests.
The next time you are listening to salsa music, see if you can identify when the orishas are mentioned or if you are up for a challenge, looks up some of the dance movements that are associated with the various orishas and incorporate them into your dancing. The combination results in a santero being a devout roman catholic at the same time he or she is sacrificing a rooster to a cement image of elegua enthroned behind the front door. Powers of the orishas download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. There are only stories, echoes of voices long dead. Orishas en cuba pdf a lo cubano is the debut album by orishas, a cuban hip hop group. The representations of the orishas are impressive in size bigger than lifesize sculptures with painted backdrops. This dvd presentation is a partial documentation of the ritual interaction between devotees of santeria and a select group of orishas in regla, cuba. Santeria is an afrocuban religion that is flexible and eclectic. The orisha chango, who governs war and presides over lightning, became associated with saint barbara who is the patron saint of artillerymen and is linked to lightning. Orishas are a cuban hip hop group from havana, cuba, founded in 1999.
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